Bug 603576

Summary:	Cannot type anything into gnome-shell widgets
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Peng Huang <phuang>
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	14	CC:	aalam, bbbush.yuan, cbm, dueno, i18n-bugs, jsingh, julian.fedora, kagesenshi.87, lionghostshop, luya, maxamillion, mclasen, otaylor, walters, yshao
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2011-03-26 15:52:37 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	669481

Description Peng Huang 2010-06-13 23:08:05 UTC

Description of problem:
Can not type anything in gnome-shell

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-shell-2.31.2-2.fc14.i686
gtk2-2.21.2-1.fc14.i686
gtk3-2.90.2-2.fc14.i686
ibus-1.3.5-1.fc14.i686

How reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. im-chooser to enable ibus
2. move cursor to left top corner
3. type something in the find entry
  
Actual results:
Can not type anything

Expected results:


Additional info:
For some reason, ibus have to processes keypress events in async mode. So gtk_im_context_filter_keypress always returns FALSE. and if ibus need ignore some keyevents, ibus im context will use gdk_event_put to forward the event back to the client window (the window is from gtk_im_context_set_client_window).

Comment 1 Peng Huang 2010-06-13 23:12:50 UTC

BTW, I am thinking if gtk could provide a better way for processing key events in async mode.

Comment 2 A S Alam 2010-06-15 13:44:21 UTC

Fedora i13 update has same problem 
gnome-shell-2.29.1-4.x86_64

Alt+F2 - type in English - Not working
use ibus to switch different language, it is working, but not able to delete

Comment 3 A S Alam 2010-06-15 16:50:08 UTC

ibus-1.3.5-2.fc13.x86_64
ibus-libs-1.3.5-2.fc13.x86_64

Comment 4 Matthias Clasen 2010-06-17 15:45:40 UTC

I can confirm this, I see this too in rawhide. Keyboard input does not work in the overview or alt-f2. Alt-arrow workspace switching still works.

Comment 5 Peng Huang 2010-06-23 02:43:20 UTC

The same bug in gnome bugzilla.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621659

Comment 6 Peng Huang 2010-06-23 02:50:47 UTC

I read code of gnome-shell and found the client window is from
gdk_window_foreign_new_for_display, and gnome-shell use clutter to handle events.
It seems the clutter does not process events in gdk event queue, and gnome-shell will never get the events sent by gdk_event_put.

Comment 7 Peng Huang 2010-06-24 05:38:45 UTC

*** Bug 604019 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Julian Aloofi 2010-06-30 11:23:26 UTC

This occurs on F13 as well.

ibus-1.3.5-2.fc13.i686
gnome-shell-2.29.1-4.i686
gtk2-2.20.1-1.fc13.i686

Comment 10 lionghostshop 2010-07-07 00:21:08 UTC

When will this bug be fixed? It cause great inconvenient to using gnome-shell.

Comment 11 Bug Zapper 2010-07-30 12:07:06 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 14 development cycle.
Changing version to '14'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 12 Owen Taylor 2010-10-17 15:50:22 UTC

*** Bug 638828 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13 Izhar Firdaus 2010-11-24 03:05:13 UTC

*** Bug 656474 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14 Owen Taylor 2011-03-26 15:52:37 UTC

Upstream bug has been fixed, will be OK in Fedora 15